[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 72

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:34 am, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> I have a SoundBlaster Live running under ALSA drivers on Kernel 2.4.20.
>   Its very weird.  When the front-end hangs, so does the back-end.  I
> have to kill both to restore functionality.

It's more the backend hanging that's causing the frontend to hang =)

> Here's what I get in mythbackend.log:
>
> 2003-06-21 01:31:20 adding: heracles.jajcs.net as a player 0
> 2003-06-21 01:31:20 adding: heracles.jajcs.net as a remote ringbuffer
> Can't open video device:
> open video:: No such file or directory
> VIDIOCSAUDIO: Bad file descriptor
>
> This seems to indicate that my /dev/video0 link is bad.  However, if I
> schedule a recording and then watch it, everything is fine.
>
> Any ideas?

That's odd, especially if recording works.  The error messages indicate that 
the video device is set to nothing at all.

Isaac